Package and article carrier



u. FULTON.

PACKAGE AND ARTICLE CARRIER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 25% I919.

Patented Apr. 6, 1920.

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wow mamas CHARLES FULTON, OF COFFEYVILLE, KANSAS.

PACKAGE AND ARTICLE CARRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent. 7, Patented Apr, 6, 1920.

Application filed September 29, 1919. Serial No. 327,200.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES FULTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cotleyville, in the county of Montgomery and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Package and Article Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to package and article carriers and it has for its object the provision of an improved device of thischaracter of the utmost simplicity and one that may be very economically manufactured. It is a primary object of the invention to provide a package carrier comprising a handle element and a cord or the like, the two being so correlated and arranged that the cord may be quickly and easily engaged about an article to be carried; will remain in its adjusted position without be ing tied and may be released with a single pull.

Further objects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in the detailed description which now follows:

The figure shown in the accompanying drawing is a perspective view of an article carrier constructed in accordance with the invention.

In carrying out the invention a single piece of wire is bent to form a handle portion 5 and a shank 6, and the wire constituting the shank is bent at intervals throughout the length of said shank to constitute an upper eye 7, an intermediate eye 8 and a lower eye 9. If desired a tube 10 may be provided through which a portion of the wire of the handle 5 passes to prevent this handle from cutting the hand of the user. A stout cord or like flexible element 11 has one of its ends knotted as at 12 and is then passed through the lower eye 9, the knot lying upon the inner side of the eye; is then passed inwardly through the eye 8 and extending downwardly and around the book or other article to be carried indicated at 13; the cord is then passed outwardly through the eye 7 and the portion '14 thereof is forced upwardly between the knot and that portion of the cord 11 lying adjacent there to and is bound in the inverted U shaped part of the cord immediately below the eye 8. It will be apparent that as the weight of the article is brought upon the handle there is a tendency for the eyes 8 and 9 to move bodily toward the side of the book and this aids in additionally frictionally binding the part i l of the cord to hold against reverse movement. The extremity of the cord may or may not be knotted,'as desired, as indicated at 15. p

It is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the precise construction set forth but that it includes within its purview whatever changes fairly come within either the terms or the spirit of the appended claim.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- A device of the character described comprising a shank portion and a handle portion, the shank portion being provided with three eyelets in its length, the two lower of which are close together and a cord or like flexible element passed outwardly through the lower loop, then passed inwardly through the next of said loops, then being extended around an article to be carried and passed outwardly through the upper of said loops and being bound between those portions of the cord which lie between the two lower loops.

In testimony whereof I my signature. CHARLES FULTON. 

